Exam 6: Gender and Development: Theoretical Insights and International Commitments

Placing empowerment at the centre of efforts to achieve gender equality required self-understanding about gender inequalities in the home and the community.

Post-colonial and decolonial feminists question whether it is possible to create alliances among women from different parts of the Global North and South.

How can gender inequality and economic inequality be tackled?

What was significant about the Fourth World Conference on Women organized by the United Nations?

What are the two goals of the gender and development approach?

The women in development approach calls for specific attention to women as development actors.

How does the women and development approach differ from women in development?

How has the changing dynamic of migration affected women in the Global South?

When was the First World Conference on Women held?

What approach to development emerged in the 1980s to bring a gendered approach to the social, economic, and political realities of development?

What do the main critiques to neoliberal women-centred development programs come from?

What are the dangers of the exclusive focus on women and girls' economic empowerment?

A common critique of feminist development scholars from the Global South is that Western development "experts" measured gender progress with Western lenses.

How do NGOs contribute to the role of socialization to battle gender inequality?

Why and how do projects that focus on population control essentialize women?

What is one example of feminist foreign policies adopted by different countries

The essentialization of women and girls are often used to portray them as stereotypes and generalizations.

Which is a core concern of post-colonial feminism?

The shift from women to gender was driven by the success of two decades of development programs in women's issues.

The Sustainable Development Goals commits to achieving gender equality and empowering all women and girls.